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Lens-Artists Challenge: Autumn Colours
Posted on October 6, 2025
Well, it’s definitely that time of year again, and apart from the chillier mornings perhaps the most immediately noticeable sign that autumn is upon us is nature’s changing colour palette as the predominant greens steadily turn to reds and browns.
Lens-Artists Challenge: What’s In A Garden?
Posted on August 13, 2024
What’s in a garden? Many things, large and small. From stately homes to formal beds, from fountains to mazes. Obviously, not every garden has any of these, but I can pretty much guarantee that thy will all have flowers and insects that have a symbiotic relationship with them.
Budding
Posted on February 9, 2024
We’re getting towards the cusp of winter and spring now, and already new life is stirring in the undergrowth, as evidenced by the buds appearing on this blackthorn bush.
I decided to try and make a virtue of my inability to get sharp focus with the camera on my smartphone by taking advantage of the bokeh that this image provided (I say ‘bokeh’, you could reasonably say ‘blur’).
‘Floating’ Poppy
Posted on March 11, 2021
A bit of bokeh and a judicious angle makes this orange poppy appear to be floating in mid-air.
Tuesday Photo Challenge: Focus
Posted on September 10, 2019
Frank’s theme this week is ‘Focus’. We’re all supposed to try and get our images pin-sharp, apparently, but sometimes a little judicious out-of-focus or bokeh seems to make the focus stand out even more.
52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 32 – Shallow Depth of Field
Posted on May 1, 2017
To my mind, the manipulation of depth of field that is possible with a DSLR camera is one of the most creative aspects of photography. As The Girl That Dreams Awake rightly says in setting this week’s theme, it is most commonly used in macro and portrait photography.
Well, I don’t take many portraits but I do photograph a lot of flowers, where shallow depth of field is particularly effective. This close-up (as opposed to macro) image of a bud about to open was shot at ƒ2.8 – as big an aperture as it gets on that particular lens – in order to throw the background out of focus, providing some pleasing bokeh to complement the subject.
Rule of Thirds (1)
Posted on December 3, 2015
All these images place the subject in either the left or right one-third of the image and, I think, are more effective than they would be if they were simply centred. Roll over each image for further explanation.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Rule of Thirds
Posted on February 22, 2015
For this week’s challenge, a photograph of some seedpods of an Honesty plant (known in France as ‘monnaie du Pape’ – The Pope’s Money). I do like a bit of bokeh.
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